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- 1223 In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
- 1698 The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama.
- 1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
- 1769 The de Portol Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
- 1771 Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junpero Serra.
- 1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
- 1789 French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
- 1791 The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
- 1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against US govt
- 1798 The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
- 1798 The first direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves
- 1825 The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1827 The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu.
- 1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
- 1845 The first postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
- 1850 The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
- 1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
- 1853 Pres Franklin Pierce opens first industrial exposition (NY)
- 1865 First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom died on the descent.
- 1865 The first ascent of Matterhorn
- 1867 Visitor posting - Dynamite first demonstrated by Alfred Nobel in a Surrey quarry - United Kingdom
- 1868 Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, AJ Fellows, Ct
- 1881 On a ranch near old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the infamous Western outlaw known as "Billy the Kid" was shot to death by Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County
- 1902 The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
- 1911 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Phillipines
- 1914 The first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
- 1918 Jay Forrester, a pioneer in computer memory, was born . Forrester studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later became a professor and researcher. In 1945
- 1921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster
- 1933 East European Jewish immigrants are stripped of German citizenship.
- 1933 Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
- 1934 116ø F (47ø C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record)
- 1934 NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
- 1936 116ø F (47ø C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
- 1940 World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.
- 1942 Captain Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the second of two Victoria Crosses in Egypt
- 1943 In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American.
- 1947 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1747 Wright
- 1948 Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
- 1950 RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
- 1951 Citation becomes first horse to win $1,000,000 in races
- 1951 The first color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
- 1953 The first natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
- 1954 117ø F (47ø C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)
- 1954 118ø F (48ø C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
- 1954 The central region of the United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118 F (48 C) in Warsaw and Union, Missouri, and 117 F (47 C) in East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures.
- 1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
- 1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
- 1958 Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader.
- 1958 Iraqi army overthrows monarchy; republic replaces Hashemite dynasty
- 1958 King Faisal II PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad
- 1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
- 1964 Visitor posting - July 14, 1964 Gerald Frank Godec Jr. was born in Danville PA.
- 1964 Visitor posting - Nina Sue Pledger-Harper born - USA [email protected]
- 1965 Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
- 1965 US Mariner IV, first Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
- 1966 A fire at a mental hospital in Guatemala City kills 225.
- 1966 In Chicago, Illinois, eight student nurses were killed in what was called the"crime of the century." Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Paison--all nursing students at the South Chicago Community Hospital--were strangled or stabbed to death by Richard Spec
- 1966 In Chicago, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory.
- 1966 Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
- 1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
- 1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
- 1968 Westbrook Van Voorhis announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
- 1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins
- 1969 Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20.
- 1969 Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use," leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency. [1]
- 1970 Preston Foster actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69
- 1972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1959 Karbyshev & #2423 Ibarruri
- 1972 Visitor posting - Tracie R. McCoin was born - USA
- 1973 Clarence White guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car
- 1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to the Everly Brothers
- 1974 Bundy victms Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
- 1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
- 1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NY
- 1978 Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
- 1979 George De Witt TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56
- 1981 MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country.
- 1983 Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
- 1984 Kenny Delmar comedian (School House), dies at 74
- 1984 New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon. It was this government that introduced the world's first and only nuclear free legislation.
- 1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
- 1986 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
- 1986 Visitor posting - Adam James Isted Born - United Kingdom
- 1986 Richard W Miller became first FBI agent convicted of espionage
- 1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
- 1987 Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
- 1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
- 1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
- 1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
- 1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
- 1988 Volkswagen's automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States - closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen's Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the Golf and some Jetta models until its closing.
- 1989 The 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premiers
- 1990 Visitor posting - Radio Kerry, Kerry's first licensed commercial station, commences broadcasting - Ireland
- 1990 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premiers on WWOR-TV
- 1992 A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Cody Haines was born on July 14, 1992 in the US.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Jul 14, 1992 Petra P. was born in SK
- 1994 NBC said it would launch two subscription-based online news services starting in September
- 1995 The MP3 format was named.
- 2000 George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.
- 2002 During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
- 2005 Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom
- 2006 The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus were relegated, Lazio, Fiorentina and AC Milan were spared relegation.
- 2007 Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
- 2009 Visitor posting - July 14 2009 Martin Hunt turns 21 years of age!
- 2009 Visitor posting - Gerald Godec Jr. , my Wonderful Boyfriend, is 45 today!! He was born in Danville, PA. July 14th, 1964 Happy Birthday, GMD!!
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